Archive for January, 2006

Texas Hold-Up – Twice!

Ah the humor in it all… After having their previous Texas Hold’em Tournament robbed at gun point, this past week, the same and ever popular NoVA Texas Hold’em Tournament was robbed again.
How could the same game get robbed again, you ask? Oh maybe because of its advertising. Seems they invited the wrong [...]

District Driving Facts

A number of people may not be aware of this, but just as a right on red is legal in the District of Columbia, so is a left, provided that you are on a one-way street and turning onto another one-way street. It’s hard to verify, since for no reason I can discern you can’t [...]

Popping Caps in the Capitol

Seems kids in Northeast, forgetting that guns are banned in DC, played a modified game of Russian Roulette to the death last week. Instead of putting a revolver with a single round to their own own head, they pointed the gun at each other during turns. Inventive, yes, smart, no, as now another [...]

Complaining About Time

Remember those early mornings in High School when Honors Physics only ever met at 7:45am? Or swim practice at 6am? They could soon be a thing of the past in DC if a local group gets their way. Of course, those of us who lived to tell about the 7:45am classes get [...]

Far out, man.

Some of the most amazing visuals to come out of local agency NASA in the last decade have been from the Mars rover project. Now there’s a movie coming up, in IMAX no less, all about the project. Directed by George Butler who brought us “Pumping Iron,” of all things, the film looks to be [...]

Park somewhere else, why don’t cha?

So DC has a parking problem. That isn’t news to anyone who lives here. And now Mayor Williams says he’s gonna help alleviate the parking woes by capping the number of cars allotted per household at three and raising residential parking permit fees for one permit from $15 to $25. A permit for [...]

I experienced lunch from the

I experienced lunch from the best burrito cart in the city the other day. My coworker insisted that we walk to the burrito guy at 15th and K instead of the one at 17th and K, closer to our office. This wasn’t a problem for me, since I had never been all that [...]

Torino Update: DC Curling Team?

Puerto Rico, Guam, The US Virgin Islands, they all get their own Olympic Delegation for Torino. They all have just one non voting representative in the House, just like us, here in DC. So, why not a DC Olympic Team? Sounds good by me. They’ve assembled a Curling Team to represent [...]

Upcoming Battle: Virginia and Gay Marriage

The Virginia Senate today passed a bill to place on a general statewide ballot in November a ban on same sex marriage, just days after the House of Delegates did the same. The ban would come in the form of an addition to the Virginia Bill of Rights, authored by George Mason in 1776, [...]

And so it starts…

I just got my first Valentines Day party announcement in my inbox – this one from Café Luna & skewers, which means it’s high time I get my butt in gear to leave the country.

See, I’ve found the most sure-fire way to be free of the Hallmark Holiday that Valentines has become is to flee [...]

It’s civil disobedience week, have you jeered your congresscritter today?

Well, okay, it’s not an official holiday, though it may seem like one here at DC Metblogs. Tom mentioned the exhibit at the Spy Museum and a little earlier mentioned the permit kerfuffle over at Walter Reed. Today we have students at Georgetown speaking out during a Alberto Gonzales appearance and expressing their concern over [...]

Show me some love, JetBlue!

It’s not that I don’t appreciate your upgrading my coffee options, darlings, but we geeks need our toys first and coffee second. After all, there’s lots of other caffeine delivery systems out there to pick from. Our very own Fairfax-based nerd-toy seller Think Geek has a suite of stuff ranging from caffeinated mints and gums [...]

What Dinner Won’t Be

Slashfood has an article today on what it’s like to set the menu at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, and it’s got some amazing limitations for chefs:
Flambés are banned, after a woman leaning over her dessert caused her fox-fur scarf to catch fire in 2001. Foods that smell very strongly and might be offensive to some guests, [...]

Lottery Corrections Ain’t funny

What would you do if you woke up last Saturday morning and checked your Virginia Lottery Mega Millions numbers from Friday’s drawing in Saturday’s Washington Post and your numbers matched the $31,000,000 (that’s $31 million, folks) grand prize?
Right after you checked the numbers a second time, had a mild heart attack and then hurt [...]

Washingtonpost.com to readers: You can comment again… eventually

There’s going to be a live discussion on WashingtonPost.com about the post.blog comment shutdown from last week and the technical and ethical issues around it. It’s going to start at 1pm this afternoon so if you want to watch it and/or ask questions, you can go here. If you’re late for the party you [...]

Dremo Gets 9 Month Reprieve

We’ve talked about Arlington Beer Bar Dr. Dremo on numerous occasions here, as their location saga has gone on and on while the County Council discusses the zoning of the land, and such. The latest in the saga is that the buyer of the land on which Dremo and the Taco Bell sit has [...]

Studying Dissent

We’re lucky enough in this town to have some incredible events at some of the amazing museums. This week’s highlight is a session at the Spy Museum called The FBI and the Weather Underground. The talk will cover the history of an American counter culture group called Weather Underground, which were an offshoot [...]

Add geeks. Shake well.

There’s a Brainjam in DC on Monday at the DC Improv.
What’s a Brainjam, I hear you ask? I haven’t been to one either, but judging by the description on the website, it’s like speed-networking mashed with free-form conversations about hot topics of interest to the attendees- blogging, digital identity and trust, managing [...]

Setting expectations low and still dissapointing

A more cynical person might say that’s almost the Washington Capitals’ tagline, but I think even the most optimistic of us has to look at the line from this article with some dark humor.
The loss snapped the Capitals’ four-game winning streak, their longest in three years. They had been looking to win five in a [...]

Changing the Guard

Since March, the corner opposite the entrance to Walter Reed Army Medical Center has been occupied by protest groups including Code Pink, who use the corner to display protest messages against the war in Iraq toward the hospital where troops are recuperating after war injuries. Apparently, they forgot to renew their permit. The [...]